Quantum measurement
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Quantum measurement
zbMATH Open document ID: 1416.81001
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43389-9
author: P. Busch
author: Pellonpää
author: K. Ylinen
author: Pekka Lahti
published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Cham)
publication date: 2016-08-17T00:00:00Z
review text: This book is addressed to students of physics or mathematics who like mathematically rigorous formulations and deductions. It may as well serve lecturers or researchers as a useful reference text. The reader gets well introduced into the physical problems and the mathematical tools used for their solution. The book is organized in four parts, 22 chapters, a preface, and a subject index including a list of symbols. Each chapter is endowed with references, and suitable exercises. Chapter 1 is the introduction which contains an outline of the text including the general structure of statistical experiments. Part I, entitled ``Mathematics'', begins with Chapter 2 which states and explains fundamental concepts of unitary and Hilbert spaces. More advanced topics considered are the lattice of closed subspaces, the polar decomposition of operators, direct sums and tensor products of Hilbert spaces. Chapter 3 is devoted to classes of compact operators, trace class and Hilbert-Schmidt operators, operator ideals and dualities, tensor products and partial traces, the Schmidt decomposition in the bipartite case. In Chapter 4, operator integrals are introduced and the spectral representation of bounded symmetric operators is considered. Operator valued measures and integrals are discussed to some extend. Such considerations are continued for the unbounded case in Chapter 5. Now domains of definition of operators have to be respected and symmetry does not imply selfadjointness. Here also one-parameter unitary groups and Stone's theorem are considered. A final remark stresses the importance of this chapter for quantum mechanics. Chapter 6 points at $C^{\ast}$ and von Neumann algebras now introduced and used in the proceeding chapter as valuable tools in quantum theory. Chapter 7 begins with the definition of $n$-positive and completely positive linear maps. Then Stinespring and Naimark dilation theorems are derived considering Stinespring type representations of positive bilinear ma…
reviewed by: K.-E. Hellwig
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81Q05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46G10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46N50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 47N50
zbMATH DE Number: 6617717
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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